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# Did you see that they've found some exoplanets that rotate in the opposite direction to their star?
I didn't know that this wasn't meant to happen, but apparently it wasn't (although now they know it can).
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 13:41, archived)
# actually no i didn't hear a thing about that
if i get what you mean you mean the star's rotating clockwise and the planet is orbiting anticlockwise? that's really hard to explain. it's like you start off with everything on a big roundabout that then splits up. all the individual pieces are still going to orbit in the direction that it was spinning in. or if you mean that the planet itself is rotating opposite to the star... i didn't know anyone had got enough of a handle on a planet's atmosphere to tell which way it was rotating! that'd be fantstic.

any ideas of a link or anything?
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 13:45, archived)